LUDLOW – The School Committee in September will form a Search Committee to select a permanent school superintendent for the school district.

Meeting on Thursday, the School Committee decided to include three parents, three teachers, an administrator, a School Department employee, three community members, a student and a representative from either the Board of Selectmen or the Finance Committee on the Search Committee.

The School Committee plans to advertise for the superintendent position in November and hopes to come up with a final choice by March 8.

Community members will be asked to take an online survey on the Ludlow public schools website regarding the qualities they would like to see in a new superintendent.

School Committee members have agreed that a new school superintendent should have a master’s degree, with other advanced degrees preferred, five years teaching experience and administrative experience.

The new school superintendent is to receive a three-year contract.

A Search Committee will interview semi-finalists and bring three to five finalists before the School Committee to be interviewed publicly before a vote is taken.

School Committee members are still discussing the salary for a new school superintendent.

Consultant Pat Correira said the town of Palmer currently is advertising for a school superintendent and says it will pay between $125,000 and $140,000 for the position.

School Committee members will set a salary range for the position at either their August or September School Committee meeting.

A new superintendent will replace Kenneth J. Grew who is serving as interim superintendent for a year.

Grew replaced Theresa M. Kane in the position. Kane resigned to take a position as superintendent of the East Windsor, CT, public schools.

Correira told the School Committee that in the Berkshires some superintendents are paid $99,000, while on the South Shore of Massachusetts there are principals who are paid $130,000.